Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

71 In You, O LORD, I trust. Let me never be ashamed.

² Rescue me and deliver me in Your righteousness. Incline Your ear to me and save me.

³ Be my Strong Rock, whereto I may always resort. You have given Commandment to save me; for You are my Rock, and my Fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

⁵ For You are my Hope, O LORD God; my Trust from my youth.

⁶ I have been upheld by You from the womb. You are He Who took me out of my mother’s core. My praise shall be of You always.

1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the Priests who were at Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,

² to whom the Word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,

³ and also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

¹¹ After this, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a rod of almond tree.”

¹² Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly. For I will hasten My Word, to perform it.”

¹³ Again the Word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a seething pot, looking out of the North.”

¹⁴ Then the LORD said to me, “A plague shall spread out of the North, upon all the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁵ “For lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the North,” says the LORD, “and they shall come. And everyone shall set his throne in the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and on all its walls, all around, and in all the cities of Judah.

¹⁶ “And I will declare to them My Judgments touching all the wickedness of those who have forsaken Me, and have burnt incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

¹⁷ “You, therefore, truss up your loins and arise and speak to them, all that I Command you. Do not be afraid of their faces, lest I destroy you before them.

¹⁸ “For I, behold, I, this day, have made you a defensed city, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

¹⁹ “For they shall fight against you. But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you, to deliver you,” says the LORD.

6 And it happened that on a second solemn Sabbath, He went through the corn fields. And His disciples plucked the ears of corn and ate and rubbed them in their hands.

² And certain Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath days?”

³ Then Jesus answered them, and said, “Have you not read what David did when he himself, and those who were with him, were hungry?

⁴ “How he went into the house of God and took and ate the showbread, and also gave to those who were with him (which was not lawful to eat, except only for the priests)?”

⁵ And He said to them, “The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath day.”